Francois Mitterrand

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The longest-serving President of France (from 1981 to 1996) was an ambitious man who "loved to seduce or overawe women" and had "innumerable one-night stands." Writing about the reaction to the Clinton sex scandals, William Styron recalled Mitterrand's 1981 inauguration, after which the new President was surrounded by beautiful, tittering young women who all left him with meaningful see-you-laters. Mitterrand occasionally admitted that stuff like this was a pretty good reason to be president.

Conquests: Many flings, one very public mistress (Anne Pingeot), with whom he had a daughter (the French public and media didn't especially seem to mind this at all).